Quotes About Introspection

Don't use Buddhism to become a Buddhist. Use Buddhism to become better at whatever else in your life you are doing already.

In actual life it requires the greatest discipline to be simple, and the acceptance of oneself is the essence of the moral problem and the epitome of a whole outlook upon life.

She liked to imagine that when she passed the world looked after her, but she also knew how anonymous she was.

In every aspect of my life, I tend to look for the deeper side.

I don't know why people are so keen to put the details of their private life in public; they forget that invisibility is a superpower.

Solitude is for me a fount of healing which makes my life worth living.

My life is a rather grim one. One day I shall perhaps describe it to you in great detail.

Writing is a suspension of life in order to re-create life

I think that sense of always traveling has something to do with anonymity and privacy and pleasure in having a very clear, very reductive life.

A mind, like a home, is furnished by its owner, so if one's life is cold and bare he can blame none but himself. You have a chance to select from pretty elegant furnishings.

Do people ever get over being shy? I think it's with you for life-like the color of your eyes.

I began to have an idea of my life, not as slow shaping of achievement to fit my preconceived purposes, but as the gradual discovery and growth of a purpose which I did not know.

Lookin back on it at least my pride is in tact cause we said no strings attached and I still got tied up in that

For me nightlife is like everyday life's mirror.

So now I have started living my own life. Imperfect and clumsy as it may look, it is resembling me now, thoroughly.

I learned the significance of my own insignificant life.

There's a point when your tape of life runs off the reel and there's this stillness of your own - I got to know myself.

Mortality means you don't have forever to work things out. You can live your life unexamined but then on the last day you're going to think: 'I've left things a little late.

The life which is not examined is not worth living.

I doubt about myself. I think doubts are good in life. The people who don't have doubts I think only two things-arrogance or not intelligence.

To test if you are worrying too much about looking good, observe how you feel when you find out you've made a mistake or don't know something.

We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life.

Flora sighed. It was curious that persons who lived what the novelists called a rich emotional life always seemed to be a bit slow on the uptake.

I cannot solve the problem of life by losing myself in the problem of art.